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Show THE SALINA SUN. SAUNA. UTAH Gotham Clergyman Keeps Snakes as His Playmates New Reflector Seen Even Around Corner A stronger reflector knob for Illuminating the various signs on highways has been invented by William R. Miller and William J. MacDonald, Boston real estate men. The new knob will glimmer when struck by a headlight at a angle, whereas those now In use light up only within a angle, according to the Inventors. The state has ordered 155,-00- 0 of the new buttons for test Bostoa . - . snakes. Bitten, he explains he has always been lucky enough to have a packet of serum handy. Once, grasping a cotton mouth, he escaped by the width of a thumb. Help was 20 miles away. Being struck by a snake is more or less dangerous, according to the part of the body bitten and how far the victim Is from help, according to Doctor Meyer. Some harmless, varieties of snakes closely resemble In their markings some highly dangerous ones, he says. Amusing to Doctor Meyer are stories of hoop snakes that tuck their tails In their mouths and roll downhill or of the snakes that scatter Into sections at the approach of danger, only to .reassemble when all is well again. The preacher Is not quite certain as to the species of serpent that was In the Garden of Eden, but he says It must have been a special reptile because it had ears and none of the snakes with which he Is acquainted had ears. New Yorlc Preacher Collects Reptiles as Hobby. New York. Snakes may typify original simin the .Bible, but to Rev. Dr. Hugo E. Meyer, who expounds the Bible from the pulpit of Christ Lutheran church, Woodhaven, they are Just . so many little playmates. In Jars In a room on the second floor of his house adjoining the church, Doctor Meyer has .more than 1,000 specimens preserved In alcohol. In his. back yard he has a live rattlesnake; seven alligators, and a family of tur-- 1 ties. Yearly .the preacher makes a trip to Palm Beach and Miami and comes .back with additions to his collection. Last year he motored back with 800 pounds of live snakes In nine boxes and, eleven bags, attracting, lnclden-- . tally, considerable attention from the proprietors of filling stations along his route. Some of his little friends are now- in the snakehouse at the. Bronx park zoo and Doctor Meyer has not yet undertaken this years expedition, so that his stock of live specimens is lew. .Rare and Valuable Snakes. The rattler is dangerous and he Is carefully penned in a wire cake. The allegators have only a little more freedom. Doctor Meyer keeps also a large police dog, which has to be tied while the snakes are on view. The back .yard Is a center of Interest for the Woodhaven Boy Scout troop. Doctor Meyer has many rare and. valuable specimens. To the. expert, the' room upstairs would present a wealth of. scientific information. Jars line the walls,, and each jar is the last resting place of some repulsive looking reptile; cotton mouth or water moccasin, rattler, king snake, black snake or common garter snake. ' To . see a snake, Doctor Meyer says, is. to want it and want is to get 1L Doctor Meyer, who is 'sixty-eigh- t years old, has been following his hobby for 58 of them. In Germany, when he was ten, he heard an address by Alfred Brehms, naturalist, and he imme-- diately made his first collection of 40 snakes. On a return trip to Germany a few years ago he had difficulty with a customs inspector, who refused to believe he had live snakes In a case he was carrying. Docto.r. Meyer offered to substantiate his contention and lifted the lid of the case. The inspector landed, several feet away and did not bother to inspection. Through his studies at several Get-- ' man universities, Doctor Meyer continued liis Interest. He attended the University of Berlin, becoming a bachelor and master of arts. He took his de- gree of doctor pf philosophy at Goet-- . tingen and did some work also atDx-ford- . Wherever the preacher went he took his collection.- He studied for the ministry in Europe, but was dot or-- ' dained.' until coming here in 1803. Since then he 'has served pastorates In South Jersey, ASbury park and Albany. lie. has Jived In Woodhaven 19. ' Deposits Increase in . Two Autos Per Family Newton, Mass. This city, one. of Bostons wealthiest suburbs, has nearly two automobiles for every family. There are 14,000 families and 23,000 automobiles. Hog Weighs 1,400 Pounds Raymond, N. H. Harry D. Whittier believes he owhs New Hampshires biggest hog. It is 9 feet long, 4 feet high, and weighs nearly 1,400 ' pounds. . A new and personally approved trait study of Henry J. Alien of por- Kan- one-thir- - Look up your Goodyear dealer now and get the world's greatest tires at real savings by using your old tires for money. When you get his liberal allowances youll certainly say to yourself: Why be satisfied with any second-choic- e E tire when more! costs no tires ruin your pleasure of driving. Dont risk the safety of yourself and your family pn tires so old that they may - FIRST-CHOIC- Cowboys Plan to Rope a Panda, Whatever That Is Philadelphia. A group of American cowboys are soon leaving for Tibet to corral the giant panda for the Philadelphia Zoological garden. The trip will be under the direction of Howard S. Reed, famed wild animal hunter, who consulted with C. Emerson Brown of the zoo before announcing his plans. Reed expects to bring the elusive animal back alive with the aid of a few American lassos and an American trained pack of dogs. $250,000 What Better Proof Than This Could Be Wanted? Edward A. Filene, the Boston merchant and economist, had been proving at the Cosmopolitan club that mass production Is an incomparable benefit to mankind. But why keep .on with- - these proofs?" he wound up. .The thing is as evident on its face as Smiths marriage. You say Smith Is married, but what proof have you?- an employer asked. . Well, sir, said an employee, I saw Smith pushing a baby-coac- h last Sunday morning, and there was a young woman on one side of him and an old woman on the other, and its I passed, the young woman said, Youve come home In that condition eight Saturday nights running,-yocad. And then "the . old woman chipped In with, Do,, for goodness sake, Ethel, make him put another thousand on. his life before his livers gone completely." Detroit . Gene Sarazen, wihner of the United States and British open golf champione record at the Hotel' Roosevelt, N.- Y.,' by signships, clipped another ing a record $250,000 contract placing himself under the exclusive management of Itay McCarthy, football director at the Yankee stadium and Polo grounds, and prominent in the golf world for years. McCarthy, (at left) is of a million guaranteeing. Sarazen (right) a minimum income of ' quarter ' . dollars In the next two . . all-tim- . eliminated, all the water flowing from Lake Albert into the White Nile could be used by the. people of the Sudan and Egypt One. portion of the great project, therefore, Is to cut a wide and deep channel fpr miles through the Sudd to allow the" full volume of the White Nile to flow into the main river. The dam wall across Lake Albert must be wide enough' to carry road and. railway tracks, thus providing a new northern connection between the Congo system on the one hand and the Kenya and Uganda railways on the other, .bringing some traffic to the east coast which now goes noFth via ' . . the river . route. . s No matter what make or kind of tires you are now using Goodyear dealers will give you real money for them to get old, unsafe tires off the road. jvA . rs blowouts. lr; To Control Waters of the Nile Africa.-Enginee- to motorists. Dont let worn-ou- t sas, former United States senator, who has been selected by President Hoover to handle the publicity for the Mr. Allen, who coming campaign.was at one time a newspaper editor, was also In charge of publicity during the 1928 campaign. . Nairobi, East burrowing into the. bed. of a lake In southern Egypt are searching for rock foundations to support a huge dam. Once erected,- - this dam will enable man to control the level of .the Nile, as large as Engreclaim swamp-area' d more land, and give Egypt ' ' ; water than she now receives. with men have For years struggled these problems.' The trackless swamps defied them; the Nile struck Its 'own level- whether 'Egypt parched, or not. It wa4 only with the development of aerial survey that the colossal irriga-- . tlon scheme came within reach of realization. It has now been sanctioned .and will be carried out by government when funds are avail' . able. The project will cost $50,000,000 and the dam will be built across Lake AlThe building of bert at Fakwach. the giant blockade will conserve the waters of the lake, making it possible to provide an even flow and thus control the level of the Nile. It will mean employment for at least 300 Europeans and 1,000 natives. Elimination of the great Sudd swamp area in the Upper Nile, where an accumulation of vegetable matter, sometimes 20 feet thick, clogs up the river, is one of the objectives. Much precious water Is held up today in this section. If the Sudd could be dont drive another in of punctures or fear day AM . Wife Conquers Fear. Mrs. Meyer said. that she was at first . a little nervous regarding her. husbands hobby and at times wheh snakes were likely to be roaming around the. house, she used to send the preacher In khead of her. She got over this parly fearf however, and has Since been .known to permit him to store a healthy rattler in her china cabinet over a pe' riod of weeks.' . Doctor Meyers daughter, now a way at a university, never had any' fear of ' snakes. When she was five years old but harm- . she used to wrap the large less specimens around h.er and carry them to show to people, a practice that distressed the 'neighbors,; her parents ' said. -- Doctor. Meyer has numerous white scars on his hands from. . bites' of ' miwS slip or skid is one of the most offers ever made HERE safety Sarazen Signs Up for - Working on Big EngineersProject in Egypt. od, Turn in your worn tires at prices they may never bring again! All makes or kinds of tires accepted! German Savings Banks 11,225,-000,00- t? FMlbte!? . Economists are deriving Berlin. some consolation from the fact that the drain on German savings deposits has ceased and that savings again show an upward tendency. The banking crisis of last year, naturally affected the savings banks, although not to the same degree as Other banks; In May, 1931, savings deposits in Germany reached their 0 level, totaling highest post-wa- r marks. During the seven following months, deposits amounting to 1,543,000,000 marks, or 13.7 per cent of the total, were withdrawn from the The bottom was savings, banks. reached, in December. The tendency, however, reverted during the new year. In the first two months of 1932, savings deposits Increased by 267,000,000, rising close to the ten billion mark. for-him- . pod G. O. P. PUBLICITY MAN - - years. ... . Scorns to Don Uniform,' Gets 4 Months in Jail . France. Despite the antiwar' pact, Napoleons maxim, The rule of law ends where that of conscience begins," and the Bible quotation of Thou shalt not kill, Camille Rombaud, former teacher Lille,- Kellogg-Brian- d here, was declared guilty of disobedience because he refused to wear a soldiers uniform for conscientious and religious convictions. His plea that the governments of the world had banned war failed to save him from four months in jail following his refusal to wear the uniform of the Fifteenth artillery camp at Soissons last March. lie was eloquently defended by his counsel, cler- gymen, physicians and civilians, and his case was adjudged with, extenuat. ing 'circumstances, The case was considered as not uncommon in France and his invocation of the peace pact and the biblical Interdiction were offered as a challenge to the- - military service law. The court, by a majority of seven, however, declared Rombaud guilty of disobedience and resentenced him to four months In Jail. . - News. . World .War Pals Meet Through Newspaper Ad C. Colo. W. Pueblo, Warden, Youhgstown (Ohio) World war vet- eran, fried; 1 oT 14 years, to get -- In touch with Rufus Jacoby Pueblo veteran. They had been buddies In' the Rainbow division, but lost track of each-otheafter the armistice, found a. copy of By chance a Pueblo newspaper. In the advertising section was a small ad that called attention to the shoe repair shop operated by one Rufus Jacoby. Warden wrote to ask if by chance the two Rufus were the same, .and found they were. Warden needed Jacobys signature on some legal papers, and traveled here to meet his buddy and end the fourteen-yea- r search. - To Water Desert Land The great dam at Assouan across the Nil6 fiver and 551 miles south of Cairo, is now being heightened for the second time. When completed In 1934, the capacity of the Assouan reservoir will store five billion cubic meters of Nile water, which will be utilized for the year around irrigation of thousands qf acres of land In the northern delta. Camp Hah The troubles of a camp cook are real ones, Cornelia Alexander shows In Hashin It In a Construction an article In Ilygela MagaCamp, zine. Entire engineering projects have been abandoned when the crew decided to strike for different food, refusing baker's bread, and calling for pie at .every meal. One More Wonderful, the things that are nted-horseless cars, wireless power without smoke One thing more Is needed. What Is that? all Dowry without a bride." I'rovince. . Intelligence nonsense. tests are usually Inve- Salt Lake Citys fewest Hotel HOTEL TEMPLE SQUARE 200 Rooms 200 Tile Baths Radio connection in every room. RATES FROM 1.50 Just opposite Mormon Tabensada ERNEST C. ROSSITER, Mgr. Women said Wa-wlen- Turk Out Alien Angora, Turkey. 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